We had the warmup for the new robotics season on Saturday. This year's theme is
City Shapers - kind of a cross between architecture and the environment. The robot tasks are actually fairly simple this year (push levers, pick up loops, place blocks). But the developers completely changed the rules, specifically about where the robot can and can't be and what you can and can't touch during a match. It doesn't sound like such a big deal until you remember that these are middle schoolers. Almost every team misinterpreted the new rules. Oh well, good thing it was only a warm-up. They've still got 5 weeks to get it right.
In the meantime, I've got 5 weeks to put together a set of mission models for the playing field - over 10,000 teeny,tiny Legos. Yikes!
